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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 342956, member: 4552"]I've just got to agree with sending it to a TPG. For a few dollars you may have a coin worth thousands and thousands. And if comes back as a fake, well then you have a great conversation peice. As to the magnetic properties of metals. Not all steels are magnetic. In reality, any metal and some non metals can be made magnetic. One of the strongest magnets is called AlNiCo. It is extreamely powerful as a magnet and is made from Aluminum, Nickel and Cobalt. That is why it is called AlNiCo. And as for steel. Note there are a massive varieties of Stainless Steels. Many are made with Iron and are completely NON MAGNETIC. Very high grades of stainless steels are not magnetic. True Surgical Stainless Steels are non magnetic for the safety of operating room items that may attract a magnetic substance. High grades of Stainless Steels are utilized in many construction projects for similar reasons such as the electrical systems embedded. Meanwhile back to that coin. All 1943 Steel Cents are of a low grade, magnetic steel and that is why they had to be coated with a non corrosive, lesser rustabilty substance like Zinc. If in fact that coin is real, WOW.[/QUOTE]